A Gevasonor tape in a red Gevasonor box on a brandless spool of 12,7 cm, speed 9,5 cm/sec, recorded by Henk Woldendorp probably around 1960. On the tape are several languages Dutch, Bahasa, and the local languages. Partly the same as Band 31 Tamrau tournee but it starts to get different after 22 minutes on the A side.  Basically, it is a more extensive version of the documentary of one of the duty journeys of civil servants, the vicar and medical personnel through the Tamrau mountains, what a more extensive story and more fragments of songs and dances, animal sounds, the sounds of the environment and church services. The story continues on the B side with after seven minutes church songs and after 25 minutes songs of the Moi, mostly traditional with part of the Amu Lagilala cycle of songs, but also a church song. After 34 minutes is a report of a vicar meeting in Sorong, after 42 minutes a report om his reception on Ajau island with fife and drum music, a farwell song by the guru and his school class.
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.

Side A is 49’23 and Side B is 45’35

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